Silkie Carlo (born 1989) is a British advocate and has been the director of the British civil liberties NGO

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since 2018. Carlo worked on the defence fund for

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and appears in the 2020 American documentary film ''

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''. With Arjen Kamphuis, she co-authored ''Information Security for Journalists'', commissioned by the Centre for Investigative Journalism. She has been an organizer of

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events in London. Before starting her role at Big Brother Watch in January 2018, she worked at the human rights organisation

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. She was Senior Advocacy Officer, led work on Technology and Human Rights, and drove a legal challenge to the

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. Carlo appears in the 2024 film ''2073''.

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